Notice: after planning it for years, I moved this blog out of blogger/blogspot (which google has abandoned long ago) to wordpress on a fine evening in Dec 2024. This notice will stay here to warn that things might be broken. Let me know if you find anything.
And Orkut is turning more facebook like by adding new features which were once exclusive for the latter one. The latest change is the adding of an option called view conversation on the right side of reply in scrapbooks that let you view the entire conversations, and now you will not have to flip pages of yours / your friend’s scrapbook to understand what he meant by a scrap : “Yes, I will”.
Check it out yourself Goto scrapbook
Paul Krugman (b. 1953) of USA wins this year’s The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
Source : Nobelprize.org
A story that I got from Success does not come in a day community in Orkut. Thanks to the TS Duttkumar
A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment.
He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him.
“I can see that something is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the executive’s woes, the old man said, “I believe I can help you.”
He asked the man his name, wrote out a cheque, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
“I can erase my money worries in an instant!” he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the un-cashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the un-cashed check.
At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
“I’m so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s always escaping from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller. “
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he’d been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Have faith in your self as only that counts.
Our immune system can ward off almost all the diseases that catch human beings. But what about HIV? Why can’t we keep off it too? Are the yogis immune to HIV?
All of these questions bring us to one answer – “We were immune to HIV.” There is an enzyme called APOBEC – 3G that can fight HIV by stopping the virus from replication. But why are millions dying?
Because HI Virus has improved itself. It has evolved so as to have a code which produces the protein Vif called “virulence factor”. This Vif attaches with APOBEC -3G so that the focus of our enzyme is lost and at the very same moment, HIV gets inside. The watch dog is done with, there is nothing to fear.
But research has begun to find whether or not we can benefit from this body mechanism.
More on ScienceDaily
The bible of scouting – Scouting for boys.
BP wrote this book exclusively for children who wish to offer service to their motherland. Spread over 28 yarns, this is surely going to change you. It expresses BP’s idea of perfect children needed by the nation.
It’s just a fascinating idea. A book. An ebook. That can be edited by anyone, anywhere, anytime. And a collection of these, available at a website. Only wikimedia can do that.
The concept which I believe has been conveyed by now is one of the best merits that internet has brought to human beings. No writer may be complete by himself. But the latest form of literature removes that problem – of the incompleteness.
So, to read complete books, go to wikibooks
There was nothing…
Then, there was a point…
It was infinitely heavy.
It started expanding…
Matter started to get its physical laws.
Dust particles condensed.
Condensed dust particles joined.
Joined condensed dust particles grouped.
Galaxies were formed.
Galaxies meant lot of stars.
Lot of stars meant lot more celestial bodies other than the glowing bodies.
It meant lot of planets.
Lot of planets meant different planets.
Different planets meant different conditions.
Different conditions meant different environments.
And there was one galaxy called Milky Way.
There was one star called Sun.
There was one planet called Earth.
It had a different environment.
There was a spontaneous creation of Organic molecules.
There was changes in the environment.
There was an urge in the Organic molecules to live – (THE SECRET OF LIFE)
There was adaptation.
There was evolution…
Because it was at a distance not too far and not too near to sun – the temperature was optimum for liquid water;
Because its size was not too large, and therefore gravity was not so large to make water solid;
Because its size was not too small, its atmosphere was not too thin, so water could not be dried;
Life could exist…
Evolution continued…
Organisms became complex.
Porifera
Coelenterata
Platyhelminthes
Nemotoda
Arachnida
Arthropoda
Mollusca
Echinodermata
Protochordata
Vertebrata
And in the last type of organisms, there was man.
He was a fool.
He learned hunting.
He learned cooking.
He learned making tools.
He learned agriculture.
He found out wheels.
He found out steam.
He found out uranium…
He explored…
He implored…
He made divisions.
He made countries.
He made laws.
He broke them.
He waged wars.
He killed.
He gave birth (or She?)
He lived…
He found out why for 12 hours he could see everything, but for another 12 hours he couldn’t without electricity.
He found out why paper burnt…
He found out how to talk.
He found out how to talk with people metres away.
He found out how to talk with people kilometres away.
He found out how to talk with people countries away.
He found out how to talk with people planets away…
He found out why he was like his father and mother.
He found out that he wanted to find out everything.
He found out that he wanted to survive.
But he couldn’t find why.
He couldn’t find why he thought what he thought.
He couldn’t find why he did what he did.
He can never find it.
Because it is the SECRET OF LIFE.
It is a secret of the nature.
And nature stores secret with an encryption no hacker can hack.
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Martti Ahtisaari (b.1937) of Finland won this years Peace Nobel for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.
Source : Nobelprize.org
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (b.1940) of France wins this years Nobel Prize in Literature because he is an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization
TeraCopy is a software that
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FastCopy is a software that can increase be used to copy files from within your computer or between USB drive and computer – lightining fast. The software has a cluttered interface. But when it comes to performance, the free software can thrill you because it is really very fast.